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Don't understand aircheck collectors

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I want to know what aircheck collectors who travel a lot do for a living. I don't understand why you can't buy airchecks. In movies people who hand over certain amounts usually do things that bthey wouldn't usually do. Not with airchecks. I think it's just silly for someone to travel all over just to tape dumb radio stations.
 
John Holcomb II said:
You can too buy airchecks. but why? i'm not payin $20 per cd, which is what i've seen them as.
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I'd pay 50 or hundred bucks for an aircheck of CHOG AM 640 radio (UNSCOPED) from the summer of 1990!
The more rare and hard to get something is, the more willing people are to pay!
(and with my luck, it's most likely NOT a CD...I bet it'll be a cassette tape!)
 
If it weren’t for those that take the time and travel to get Airchecks I wouldn’t have half of the recordings I wanted. I am sure it's the same for the ones I have taped that others wanted from me that I caught on the road too. It's the wonderful world of "hobby." Some plop down tons of $$$ to restore old cars; search the ends of the earth to get car parts etc.

Here is a nice old webpage about "Airchecking as a hobby"
http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/ac.html





-Jason Smith

http://www.thehotfm.net/aircheckcollecion.htm

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Smiths-Aircheck-Page/135443049851657
 
You may understand that some of us love stations that were around when we were growing up, that brought influential music that NO ONE else played/aired...like KAAY and the program "Beaker Street", where deejay "Clyde Clifford" played music that wasn't heard hardly anywhere else...unless maybe California, at the time.

I am still trying to grow my collection of airchecks and studio-quality recordings from KAAY's 1962-1985 era, before it was sold and changed formats. Listening to KAAY as a kid and teenager was some of the best times and music I ever experienced- and was a great escape from the crap I put up with growing up.

Now, I can load an mp3, go out under the stars late at night and still "tune in", LP pops, atmospheric fade and all, just like it was back so many years ago...and, yes, it is still a pleasant escape! As an added bonus, I have become well aquainted with several of the deejays I listened to 'way back then and even visited with several in May 2011, when I vacationed in Little Rock, AR. What a delightful experience!

So, check around, see if there's any airchecks/studio copies of your favorite station growing up and get a few; some collectors TRADE and don't sell them, so, before long, your trades build up!

In the meantime, check this blog out: http://mighty1090kaay.blogspot.com/

I'm sure you'll enjoy the airchecks there!

Bud S.
Mighty 1090 KAAY Blogspot
 
I record whare I go, but wait till we're not moving to get a clear stereo recording for the most part.
Sometimes it doesn't come out as the boombox is usually locked in a car with sleep timer to not whare down the batteries.
If i'm staying for more then a day, and have a place like a hotel, I'll bring the boombox in with me, and record that way.
 
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